Eng. law, contracts. A species of security which partakes of the nature of a mortgage, as there is a debt due, and an estate is given as a security fo...
A hole dug in the earth in order to obtain water.2. The owner of the estate has a right to dig in his own ground, at such a distance as is permitted b...
These words are used in a declaration when the plaintiff sues for an injury which is not immediate and with force, and the act or nonfea-sance complai...
The name of a fine among the Saxons imposed upon a murderer.2. The life of every man, not excepting that of the king himself, was esti-mated at a cert...
old Eng. law. The price which in a barbarous age, a person guilty of homicide or other enormous offence was required to pay, instead of receiving othe...
A castrated ram, at least one year old in ark indictment it may be called a sheep. 4 Car. &, Payne, 216, 19 Eng. Com. Law Rep. 351....
mar. law. A vessel employed in the whale fishery.2. It is usual for the owner of the vessel, the captain and crew, to divide the profits in just propo...
A space of ground artificially prepared for the reception of merchan-dise from a ship or vessel, so as to promote the convenient loading and discharge...
The money paid for landing goods upon, or loading them from a wharf. Danes Ab. Index, h. t....
One who owns or keeps a wharf, for the purpose of receiving and shipping merchandise to or from it, for hire.2. Like a warehouseman, (q.v.) a wharfing...
The punishment of the wheel was formerly to put a criminal on a wheel, and then to break his bones until he expired. This barbarous punishment was nev...
The young of certain animals of a base nature, or ferae naturae.2. It is a rule that when no larceny can be committed of any creatures of a base natur...
At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to contine...
These words are used in a plea when full defence is made the form is, ",when and were it shall behove him.", This acknowledges the jurisdiction of the...
leas, &,c., B. 5, 4, 2 Chit. Pl. 151, 178, 191, Gould, Pl. c. 3, ,47....
punishment. The infliction of stripes.2. This mode of punishment, which is still practiced in some of the states, is a relict of barbarism, it has yie...
The acts of congress which authorize the naturalization of aliens, confine the description of such aliens to free white persons.2. This of course excl...
English law. Rents paid in silver, and called white rents or redditus albi, to distinguish them from other rents which were not paid in money. 12 Inst...
Being related by both the father and mothers side, this phrase is used in contradistinction to half, blood, (q. v.) which is relation only on one side...
To sell by wholesale, is to sell by large parcels, generally in original packages, and not by retail. (q. v.)...
An unmarried woman whose husband is dead. 2. In legal writings, widow is an addition given to a woman who is unmarried and whose husband is dead. The ...
Eng. law. In London the apparel of a widow and the furniture of her chamber, left by her deceased husband, is so called, and the widow is entitled to ...
The state of a man whose wife is dead or of a woman whose husband is dead. In general there is no law to regulate the time during whichh a man must re...
A man whose wife is dead. A widower has a right to administer to his wifes separate estate, and as her administrator to collect debts due to her, gene...
domestic relations. A woman who has a husband.2. A wife, as such, possesses rights and is liable to obligations. These will be considered. 1st. She ma...
&, W. 407, 9 Sim, 597, 1 S. &, S. 250.8. - 4. Whenever the wife insists upon her equity, the right will be exten-ded to her children, but the right is...
intentionally.2. In charging certain offences it is required that they should be stated to be wilfully done. Arch. Cr. Pl. 51, 58, Leachs Cr. L. 556.3...
criminal law. The power of the mind which directs the actions of a man.2. In criminal law it is necessary that there should be an act of the will to c...
The legal declaration of a mans intentions of what he wills to be performed after his death. Co. Litt. 111, Swinb. Pt. 1, s. II. 1, Shep. Touch. 398, ...
The standard measure originally kept at Winchester, in England....
e consent of the owner of the adjoining property, unless he possesses the right of having ancient lights. (q. v.) The opening of such windows and dest...
corpus, mandamus, injunction, quo warranto, certiorari, and all other writs necessary to carry into effect their orders, judgments and decrees, and gi...
Among the Saxons, this was a measure of land, it contained a half hide, or sixty acres....
pleading. This is a technical phrase indispensable in describing a forcible entry in an indictment. No other word or circumlocution will answer the sa...
practice. An agreement made between the parties in a suit to require one of the twelve jurors impanneled to try a cause to leave the jury box, the act...
practice. The name of a writ which issues on the return of elon-gata to an alias or pluries writ of replevin, by which the sheriff is commanded to tak...
pleading. This word is adopted in formal traverses, and is a negative signifying ",and not for,", accordingly the language of the elder entries someti...
This signifies that the cause or thing to which it relates is indefinitely adjourned, as when a case is adjourned without day, it is not again to be i...
When a tenant for life holds the land without impeachment of waste, he is of course dispunishable for waste whether wilful or otherwise. But still thi...
Vide Sans Recours and Indorsement, Chit. on Bills, 179, 14 S. &, R. 325, 3 Cranch, 193, 7 Cranch, 159, 1 Cowen, 538, 12 Mass. 172, 6 Shipl. R. 354....
contracts. These words are frequently used in conditions of sale at public auction, that the property offered, or to be offered for sale, will be sold...
pleading. These are technical words used in a traverse, (q. v.) for the purpose of denying a material fact in the preceding pleadings, whether declara...
could not be compelled to disclose secrets which he had received in auricular confession. City Hall Rec. 80 n. Vide Confessor, Confidential Communicat...
It has been laid down as a rule that to be considered an aged witness, a person must be at least seventy years old. See Aged Witness....
A going witness is one who is about to leave the jurisdiction of the court in which a cause is depending. See Going Witness....
Scotch law. He who has attested a deed or other writing.2. When witnesses attest a deed without knowing the grantor, and seeing him subscribe, or bear...
persons. In its most enlarged sense, this word signifies all the females of the human species, but in a more restricted sense, it means all such femal...
old Eng. law. To be free from the payment of money for taking of wood in any forest. Co. Litt. 233 a. The same as Pudzeld. (q. v.)...
A piece of land on which forest trees in great number naturally grow. According to Lord Coke, a grant to another of omnes boscos suos, all his woods, ...
construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.2. Words are to be understood in a proper or figurative s...
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